Justin Jesse Price (1930 – 12 March 2011) was an American mathematician, known for several

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s and contributions to his field. His Ph.D. dissertation at the

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was ''I. Some Duality Theorems II. On the Characters of Certain Compact Abelian Groups'' advised by Nathan Fine (1956). Price participated in a research project for the

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(1956–58) and joined the faculty at

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(1958–63). In 1963 he became

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, retiring in 2004. Price's research was in

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and

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. In fact, his article on convergence of incomplete sets of orthogonal functions merited award from

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. He had sabbaticals and stays at

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and

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. Several educational textbooks were collaborations with Purdue colleague Harley Flanders (see this for booklist).

Awards

* 1976 L. R. Ford award from

for ''excellence in expository writing'' and a paper on Orthogonal Functions * 1994

''Distinguished College or University Teaching'' award.Professor stresses the language of math
from purdue

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Price, Justin 1930 births 2011 deaths 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians University of Pennsylvania alumni Cornell University faculty Purdue University faculty Academic staff of the University of Paris Academics of University College London Harvard University staff University of California, Berkeley faculty